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New Statistical Results on the Angular Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2009-03-03 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

We presented the results of several statistical tests of the randomness in the angular sky-distribution of gamma-ray bursts in BATSE Catalog. Thirteen different tests were presented based on Voronoi tesselation, Minimal spanning tree and Multifractal spectrum for five classes (short1, short2, intermediate, long1, long2) of gamma-ray bursts, separately. The long1 and long2 classes are distributed randomly. The intermediate subclass, in accordance with the earlier results of the authors, is distributed non-randomly. Concerning the short subclass earlier statistical tests also suggested some departure from the random distribution, but not on a high enough confidence level. The new tests presented in this article suggest also non-randomness here.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4812,
  title  = {New Statistical Results on the Angular Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts},
  author = {L. G. Balazs and I. Horvath and R. Vavrek and Z. Bagoly and A. Meszaros},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4812},
  year   = {2009}
}

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in GAMMA-RAY BURSTS 2007: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Conference

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